On June 16th we issued an “Alert!” when Reuters reported that “President Barack Obama will sign an executive order barring federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual
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Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA)
Vast Majority Of Americans Think Employment Discrimination Against Gays and Lesbians Is Currently Illegal
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A new YouGov/Huffington Post survey on employment discrimination against homosexuals has some interesting statistics. The most startling is that by a 62% to 14% margin, the American public believes that…
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“If He Comes To Work In A Tutu …” And Other Objections To Anti-Gay Bias Laws
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There’s something about the prospect of the passage of laws forbidding employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation that strikes such fear in opponents that they revert to hoary…
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Virtually All of The Fortune 500 Companies Voluntarily Prohibit Discrimination On The Basis of Sexual Orientation
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U.S. Politics Today has just published the results of the Equality Forum "Fortune 500 Non-Discrimination Project" which reports that 477 of the 2012 FORTUNE 500 Companies “voluntarily include sexual orientation in…
Report Released On State-By-State Laws Regarding Gay and Transgender Employees
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A great resource has been posted online for employers, lawyers, and anyone interested in a compendium of all state laws regarding gay and transgender employees. Written by Jerome Hunt and…
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Discrimination Has Its Price
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Endorsing the passage of ENDA, (see our blog of March 18, 2012), The Center For American Progress cites a figure of $64 billion as the “price to be paid for …
ENDA To Be Pushed in Senate
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On April 1, 2011, we noted that Congressman Frank was set to introduce H.R. 1397 in the House — a bill known as ENDA ("the Employment Non-Discrimination Act"), which would bar…